Improved sad-iron



cttnitttl ttte f M. W. MONTGOMERY AND E. H. VOTAW, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 97,427, dated November 30, 1869.

IMPROVED SAD-IRON.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 4it may conce-rn,

Be it known that we, M. W. MONTGOMERY and E.

` H. VOTAW, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden,

and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in sadlrons; and We do hereby declare that the following `is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled iu` the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partA of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a longitudinal section of a sad-iron, to which our improvement has been attached, part of the handle being broken away to show the construction.`

Figure 2 is a side view of the handle, detached from the bodyof the sad-iron. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

VOurinventon has forits object to furnish an Vinn-- proved sad-iron, which shall be so constructed and ar-v ranged thatthe handle may be readilyettached and detached, for convenience in heatingr and using the sad-iron; and

lIt consists in the detachable handle, constructed and attached tothe body of the sad-iron, as hereinafter more fully described. l

A is the body of the sad-iron, in the upper side of which is formed two holes or sockets, inclined in opposite directions, to receive the loive'r ends-of the bars B of the, handle.

The barsB arepivoted to each other near their lower` ends, land in their upper ends are. formed holes, to receive 4the jcurnals'of the handle C.

One .or both ends' of the handle C are hevelled off', or have cams forned upon them, as shown in figs. l and 2, so that the said handle, when turned in one direction, may force the upper ends of the bars' B apart,

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.bars B, near their upper ends, and which is so formed as to draw the upper ends of the hars B' toward each other, when'releasedfrom the pressure of the cams or inc-lines ofthe handle O.

The spring-D may be made broad, so as to serve as a fender to protect the hand of the operator from ythe heat radiated by the body, A 'of -the sad-iron.

. ,The spring I) also serves to keep the various parts of the'handle in their proper relative position when the said handle is detached from the said body A. Having thus described our invention, What we cla'im as new, and desire to secure by Arr improved detachable sad-iron handle, for-med` by the combination ofthe pivoted bars B, handle C, having cams. or inclines formed upon one or both ends, and-spring D, with each other, as herein shown and described, andv for the purpose set forth.

The above-specification of our invention signed by us, this 12th day of J une, and 14th day of June, 1869.

M. W.lVIONTGOMERY. E. H. VOTAW.

Witnesses for M. W. MONTGOMERY:

FRANK BLocKLEY, 'JAMES .l. GRAHAM.- Witnesses for E.' H. VOTAW:

Gannon WELLS,- E." W. MERRILL. l 

